Character: Naminé | lethechained Canon: Kingdom Hearts. Her canon point is right as she’s merging with Kairi at the end of KH2. CRAU from Vestige, a horror game.
About: Naminé is a sweet, reserved, practical girl with sad eyes and boatloads of patience - complete with a lot of mostly-internalized baggage to go along - who will hecking read you. She is canonically a Nobody, which means that she's what happens when a person with a strong will loses their metaphysical heart and the rest of them just sort of keeps on going out of sheer stubbornness. Due to the fact that she was born with a unique ability to enter, adjust, and create new memories, she spent her entire canon life either being incentivized by a shady organization to rewrite the memories of her game's protagonist in order to manipulate him or, later on, trying to make up for the same by putting his memories back.
After that, this version of Naminé spent a few months in a horror game called Vestige. Therein she found herself kidnapped by yet another shady organization and forced to live out her days in a murderbox full of monsters and other threats. She came straight off of all that with a healthy dose of skepticism about this whole dreamworld business and a deep-seated need for a vacation. (And a stable home life.) Since then, she's gotten pretty used to this whole dreamworld business and has gotten used to the idea that it might not all be a trick. (She's still pretty scared she'll get sent back to the murderbox when she wakes up, though.)
Abilities: Canonically, Naminé is a powerful witch who can change the memories of others to the point of rewriting their personalities or, in the other extreme, crushing their hearts to render them non-functional. These abilities are poorly defined and apparently also allow her to alter information within written journals and computer data, and to change the appearance of objects (and possibly herself.) Additionally, she's able to create dark corridors that function as portals from one place to another.
For Songerein, some of this has gotten changed around, so the portals are no longer available to her and the memory powers evidently effect dreams instead. Because her basic skillset involves manipulating both minds and objects around her already, she's got a talent for this whole dream magic thing and has been making good use of it lately. She's pretty skilled at jumping in and out of Dreamwalks by now.
At this point, she's been able to relearn Cure, Fire, Blizzard and Thunder. Beyond that I would also like her to start getting into more defensive spells like Barrier or Stop.
Aside from those types of things, I'd also like to explore more in the direction of her inborn abilities to alter objects/her own appearance, which may involve some shapeshifting or illusions. She's already started down this path to some extent.
Dreamwalker Form: Naminé doesn't have a regular Dreamwalking form, but per her innate ability to adjust the appearance of things and KH's tendency to tweak costumes based on worlds, I'm going with her outfit/look being heavily influenced by whatever setting she's entering, rather than a standardized form.
Plans: Long-term, Naminé has been informed about some of what happens in KH3 and is now in the process of figuring out how to deal with that/what that means for her. As a result she'll probably be more willing to explore social relationships and or new opportunities as she settles into the idea of being a Real Person.
Additionally, she's just now reached a point where circumstances forced her to stop taking as much of a back seat in combat situations. She's been practicing for quite a while, and now she's finally had cause to enter the fray a couple of times; from here on out she'll hopefully be doing more of the actual fighting herself, although there'll probably still be plenty of situations in which she'll be in need of assistance.
Longer long-term, I've had some ideas floating around for a very spooky Noctaere form of hers that would probably involve twisting people's memories and/or pitting people against each other. This would be very much up to individual players to use as they see fit, and probably wouldn't be for some time, but it'd be nice to know if anyone's interested in doing that kind of thing in the future.
CR Dreams: Listen. I'm gonna level with you, here - Naminé needs friends. She has always needed friends, she will always need friends, there is just. So much loneliness in this one small teenager, you have no idea. Any kind of CR is welcome, positive or negative; she's in need of life experience in general.
That being said, I'd specifically like for her to meet some other people her own age, especially ones that have very different life experiences from her own. (Or similar ones, so that they can commiserate.)
On the opposite side of the spectrum, she's always got room for relationships with older, guardian-type characters who can provide her some positive experience with adults, since nearly all of the ones she's met during her canon have attempted to either use her or snuff her out entirely - in some cases both. She's done a good job surviving on her own, but the poor thing could use some actual caring and advice from someone older who can help look after her and teach her a few things about being a person.
As for what she can provide to others, Naminé is a very kind and compassionate individual and can handle even more difficult or aggressive personalities because of her sheer caring and general lack of a temper. She's patient and invested enough in other people's troubles that she serves as good starting CR for characters that struggle to integrate fully into the setting or don't get along well with others. If they need a therapist, she's their girl, pretty much. For more stable characters, she also makes a good tiny friend to drag along on their adventures and just generally vent their troubles to, and if they're looking for someone to protect, she serves that purpose effectively as well.
Following some of her recent experiences, Naminé's developed something of an interest in music and dancing; she's not very experienced with either but will be curious about any musical types she comes across. Other artists are very welcome too, since she always needs more artist buddies to draw with.
She has also already begun the process of helping others learn to do more with Dreamotion energy, and will likely be prone to tutoring anyone she comes across who seems to be having trouble.
Etc.: Given my typical workload, it's pretty hard for me to keep track of what recent posts are out there, so if you want CR with Naminé but I haven't been able to send her your way up 'til now, please let me know directly if you want her somewhere specific/thrown at one of your TLs. If I haven't started anything with you, it's not because I'm not interested, it's because I'm buried under RL. :'c
Naminé | Kingdom Hearts
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Character: Naminé |
Canon: Kingdom Hearts. Her canon point is right as she’s merging with Kairi at the end of KH2. CRAU from Vestige, a horror game.
About: Naminé is a sweet, reserved, practical girl with sad eyes and boatloads of patience - complete with a lot of mostly-internalized baggage to go along - who will hecking read you. She is canonically a Nobody, which means that she's what happens when a person with a strong will loses their metaphysical heart and the rest of them just sort of keeps on going out of sheer stubbornness. Due to the fact that she was born with a unique ability to enter, adjust, and create new memories, she spent her entire canon life either being incentivized by a shady organization to rewrite the memories of her game's protagonist in order to manipulate him or, later on, trying to make up for the same by putting his memories back.
After that, this version of Naminé spent a few months in a horror game called Vestige. Therein she found herself kidnapped by yet another shady organization and forced to live out her days in a murderbox full of monsters and other threats. She came straight off of all that with a healthy dose of skepticism about this whole dreamworld business and a deep-seated need for a vacation. (And a stable home life.) Since then, she's gotten pretty used to this whole dreamworld business and has gotten used to the idea that it might not all be a trick. (She's still pretty scared she'll get sent back to the murderbox when she wakes up, though.)
Abilities: Canonically, Naminé is a powerful witch who can change the memories of others to the point of rewriting their personalities or, in the other extreme, crushing their hearts to render them non-functional. These abilities are poorly defined and apparently also allow her to alter information within written journals and computer data, and to change the appearance of objects (and possibly herself.) Additionally, she's able to create dark corridors that function as portals from one place to another.
For Songerein, some of this has gotten changed around, so the portals are no longer available to her and the memory powers evidently effect dreams instead. Because her basic skillset involves manipulating both minds and objects around her already, she's got a talent for this whole dream magic thing and has been making good use of it lately. She's pretty skilled at jumping in and out of Dreamwalks by now.
At this point, she's been able to relearn Cure, Fire, Blizzard and Thunder. Beyond that I would also like her to start getting into more defensive spells like Barrier or Stop.
Aside from those types of things, I'd also like to explore more in the direction of her inborn abilities to alter objects/her own appearance, which may involve some shapeshifting or illusions. She's already started down this path to some extent.
Dreamwalker Form: Naminé doesn't have a regular Dreamwalking form, but per her innate ability to adjust the appearance of things and KH's tendency to tweak costumes based on worlds, I'm going with her outfit/look being heavily influenced by whatever setting she's entering, rather than a standardized form.
Plans: Long-term, Naminé has been informed about some of what happens in KH3 and is now in the process of figuring out how to deal with that/what that means for her. As a result she'll probably be more willing to explore social relationships and or new opportunities as she settles into the idea of being a Real Person.
Additionally, she's just now reached a point where circumstances forced her to stop taking as much of a back seat in combat situations. She's been practicing for quite a while, and now she's finally had cause to enter the fray a couple of times; from here on out she'll hopefully be doing more of the actual fighting herself, although there'll probably still be plenty of situations in which she'll be in need of assistance.
Longer long-term, I've had some ideas floating around for a very spooky Noctaere form of hers that would probably involve twisting people's memories and/or pitting people against each other. This would be very much up to individual players to use as they see fit, and probably wouldn't be for some time, but it'd be nice to know if anyone's interested in doing that kind of thing in the future.
CR Dreams: Listen. I'm gonna level with you, here - Naminé needs friends. She has always needed friends, she will always need friends, there is just. So much loneliness in this one small teenager, you have no idea. Any kind of CR is welcome, positive or negative; she's in need of life experience in general.
That being said, I'd specifically like for her to meet some other people her own age, especially ones that have very different life experiences from her own. (Or similar ones, so that they can commiserate.)
On the opposite side of the spectrum, she's always got room for relationships with older, guardian-type characters who can provide her some positive experience with adults, since nearly all of the ones she's met during her canon have attempted to either use her or snuff her out entirely - in some cases both. She's done a good job surviving on her own, but the poor thing could use some actual caring and advice from someone older who can help look after her and teach her a few things about being a person.
As for what she can provide to others, Naminé is a very kind and compassionate individual and can handle even more difficult or aggressive personalities because of her sheer caring and general lack of a temper. She's patient and invested enough in other people's troubles that she serves as good starting CR for characters that struggle to integrate fully into the setting or don't get along well with others. If they need a therapist, she's their girl, pretty much. For more stable characters, she also makes a good tiny friend to drag along on their adventures and just generally vent their troubles to, and if they're looking for someone to protect, she serves that purpose effectively as well.
Following some of her recent experiences, Naminé's developed something of an interest in music and dancing; she's not very experienced with either but will be curious about any musical types she comes across. Other artists are very welcome too, since she always needs more artist buddies to draw with.
She has also already begun the process of helping others learn to do more with Dreamotion energy, and will likely be prone to tutoring anyone she comes across who seems to be having trouble.
Etc.: Given my typical workload, it's pretty hard for me to keep track of what recent posts are out there, so if you want CR with Naminé but I haven't been able to send her your way up 'til now, please let me know directly if you want her somewhere specific/thrown at one of your TLs. If I haven't started anything with you, it's not because I'm not interested, it's because I'm buried under RL. :'c